RE: [ufodiscussion] The Trap Of Combative Dualism

But YCYOR makes a fatal mistake in reasoning that dark influences can therefore be kept out of one’s reality by denying their existence. The problem is that

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"But YCYOR makes a fatal mistake in reasoning that dark influences can
therefore be kept out of ones reality by denying their existence. The
problem is that ignorance and denial of something that has its own
independent existence gives it room to maneuver in ways you refuse to
perceive. The darkness within, your shadow side, has its own agenda and
desires that continue to operate no matter how much you try to pretend its
not there, and they will manipulate your thoughts and behavior without you
knowing it. Likewise, the darkness outside of you, namely the plethora of
predatory forces in human and nonhuman forms as well as the external
consequences of poor choices made over the years, will inevitably give you a
rude awakening from denial. In other words, when wishful thinking and denial
is chosen over awareness and responsibility, things catch up with you sooner
or later. For further discussion on YCYOR, please see my article "

J:Creating your own reality is not denying the existence of anything. He
has missed the point entirely. His very persistence in perceiving "darkness"
and a "shadow side" is creating them... Creating your own reality is not
pretending that something is not there, nor is it focusing on the darkness
that may inhabit other humans not aware of their ego... His denial of the
existence of the ego will certainly give him an awakening, poor thing.

"So instead of positivity combined with awareness, you might choose
awareness at the expense of positivity. The problem is that while awareness
prepares you to deal with negative phenomena, a negative attitude actually
increases the occurrence and severity of such phenomena. "

J:He has chosen awareness at the expense of positivity here it seems to
me. He is still focusing on the negative phenomena that is going to come his
way see and he thinks that having a positive attitude while still focusing
on it will help make it better.

"This extreme dualism is rooted in ego seeking retribution for perceived
injustices but using ego-based means of achieving that retribution. "

J:Not just extreme dualism, the ego uses dualism to combat and confuse the
growing soul.

"An interesting thing happens to those who have a fear-based preoccupation
with dark influences in their lives. They start shadow-boxing a variety of
phenomena that they themselves are responsible for creating or drawing in. "

J: He is right here. The fear based thoughts come from the ego.

"Depends on their belief system, but here I mean something like a massive
increase in suspicious characters following them in public, black helicopter
harassment, signs of tampering and monitoring, constant tormenting by dark
astral and etheric entities, ongoing violent alien abductions, and so on.
These things may have their own independent existence, but they are drawn in
and enabled by skewed awareness and negative attitude, especially  and this
is important  when one mistakes these attacks as necessary confirmation
that one is on the right track, that one has irritated the dark forces by
throwing a wrench in their works. This mistaken belief only serves to
further reinforce what has already become a turbulent path in
life. "

J: Amazing that he is allowing so much control by his ego and it flows
right over his head. So he just said that these things may have their own
existence, but are drawn in. This is true, the fearful thoughts of the ego
insinuating themselves on the unaware soul "to focus on", speeds them into
your life. However it is not a mistake in being aware of these things
coming into your life as upsetting the apple cart of others egos, the
mistake is in accepting it. By allowing the fear factor you are accepting
it in your life and your spirit then gives you more. The mistake is in
allowing it in your life at all. It is not a mistake to chuckle about how
your ego or another's has attempted to throw a wrench in your efforts at
awareness when you catch it. For laughter is compassion and you do not fight
hate with hate. He dances around the truth to make it appear that those on
the internet noticing these things are paranoid and bringing it on
themselves, when it is sometimes is the case that it happens as part of the
criminal brains bullying tactics when it realizes it does not know
everything and is trying to keep control. Hence a finger is pointing to
the next bad guy... Note this...

"Contrary to YCYOR, losing the negative attitude is not enough to solve
the problem since even if you dont attract something, that something can
still volitionally attract itself to you, so that is where awareness comes
in to mentally block or physically nip such problems in the bud. "

J: Whoa... This guy has just given sentient abilities to "things"...or is
he admitting what I just said... It is about taking control of your
thoughts back from the automatic position most humans are in at the moment.
Where they are not aware which thoughts are theirs(souls) or which thoughts
are brains(egos) and thus are prey to those egos of others who have gained
much power over mundane things. Mundane things being those things the ego
thinks it needs to survive rather than those things the soul needs to learn
and evolve. The brain is not god, the soul resides at the base of your
spine and when enlightenment occurs the spirit pulls the soul up to the
brain and the ego dies in it's present state as controller of the brain only
to evolve within the spirit/souls new being. Only the ego does not know
this as it is not in it's memory(proof the ego is only a translator/receptor
with memory), and it is afraid it will die. This was programmed into it to
save the soul while the body was young to give the soul a chance to grow,
but it was never meant to be a controller of the soul... The soul was
suppose to take control at a certain point. You need to take control of your
own thoughts and imagination and switch your car off automatic... What do I
mean by that? If you do not want it in your life do not focus on it, and if
you accidentally do for a split second become a lookie lou at an accident,
immediately say, Not for me... Wow you know something just occurred to
me... Maybe this is how the angels in Washington's vision come to help
America... Can you see it???

The Trap of Combative Dualism The New Age love and light philosophies
get plenty of criticism for being ignorant of the darker side of reality,
for being steeped in denial and wishful thinking, and for turning its
adherents into weak doormats. The You Create Your Own Reality concept
(YCYOR) is central to the paradigm, based on the assumption that everything
that happens outside of you is a reflection of what goes on inside you.
Proof of this is offered via the observation that positive thinking attracts
positive experience and negative thinking attracts negative experiences 
which is accurate, as far as I can tell.
But YCYOR makes a fatal mistake in reasoning that dark influences can
therefore be kept out of ones reality by denying their existence. The
problem is that ignorance and denial of something that has its own
independent existence gives it room to maneuver in ways you refuse to
perceive. The darkness within, your shadow side, has its own agenda and
desires that continue to operate no matter how much you try to pretend its
not there, and they will manipulate your thoughts and behavior without you
knowing it. Likewise, the darkness outside of you, namely the plethora of
predatory forces in human and nonhuman forms as well as the external
consequences of poor choices made over the years, will inevitably give you a
rude awakening from denial. In other words, when wishful thinking and denial
is chosen over awareness and responsibility, things catch up with you sooner
or later. For further discussion on YCYOR, please see my article True
Reality Creation
Needless to say, getting severely burned by wishful positive thinking or
seeing the ignorance and hypocrisy it induces in others can make you want to
run the other way. But you can run away so reactively that you slide right
into the opposite trap, which is extreme negativity and combative dualism.
For instance, if YCYOR does not work out for you, it is easy to get bitter
and throw the baby out with the bathwater, rejecting positive thinking as
a form of weakness and denial when, in truth, the problem was that the
positive attitude was not accompanied by balanced awareness. So instead of
positivity combined with awareness, you might choose awareness at the
expense of positivity. The problem is that while awareness prepares you to
deal with negative phenomena, a negative attitude actually increases the
occurrence and severity of such phenomena. Its like becoming aware that a
pipe has burst and fighting to patch it without first turning off the water
valve.
To clarify, dualism is the belief in two things irreconcilably divided,
such as good vs evil or spirit vs matter, while what I call combative
dualism is acknowledging there is darkness but getting psychotically zealous
about destroying it to the point of becoming increasingly like it. This
extreme dualism is rooted in ego seeking retribution for perceived
injustices but using ego-based means of achieving that retribution. Those
steeped in this mindset boast about being realists while justifying their
stance by scoffing at more subjective alternatives like the New Age
paradigm. Of course, they are thinking in binary terms because they are not
aware, or unwilling to acknowledge, a third and more holistic perspective.
They see only what is false in one half-truth, true in another half-truth,
and push the latter as vastly superior to the first when both are equally
defective.
An interesting thing happens to those who have a fear-based preoccupation
with dark influences in their lives. They start shadow-boxing a variety of
phenomena that they themselves are responsible for creating or drawing in.
What kind of phenomena? Depends on their belief system, but here I mean
something like a massive increase in suspicious characters following them in
public, black helicopter harassment, signs of tampering and monitoring,
constant tormenting by dark astral and etheric entities, ongoing violent
alien abductions, and so on. These things may have their own independent
existence, but they are drawn in and enabled by skewed awareness and
negative attitude, especially  and this is important  when one mistakes
these attacks as necessary confirmation that one is on the right track,
that one has irritated the dark forces by throwing a wrench in their works.
This mistaken belief only serves to further reinforce what has already
become a turbulent path in
life.
Negative attitudes come with a lowered soul frequency, and a lowered
frequency induces more frequent misperceptions and greater tangibility of
interactions with negative entities. So the fear and combativeness actually
attract more things to fear and fight than necessary. Contrary to YCYOR,
losing the negative attitude is not enough to solve the problem since even
if you dont attract something, that something can still volitionally
attract itself to you, so that is where awareness comes in to mentally block
or physically nip such problems in the bud.
When confronted by the fact that dark forces exist and are operative in
your life and the world, something innocent within you dies. But that
innocence is just naivete that had to go sooner or later, so good riddance.
Still, something like the five-stages of grief can take place: denial
(Nope, not real.), fear (Oh my god!), anger (Sons of bitches!),
acceptance (Nothing I can do about it ), understanding (Aha, now I see
the bigger picture). New Age wishful thinking is located in the first
stage. Combative dualism is stuck at the fear and anger stages, where
awareness of the problem is unaccompanied by higher understanding, a more
balanced attitude, or awareness of the positive side of reality. Its center
of gravity is the ego, and the egos idea of positive is whatever strokes,
soothes, and feeds it.
Only through comprehensive awareness combined with a balanced attitude of
positivity does the center of balance shift towards the heart of the soul,
and only then through responsibility in your actions does the circuit
finally complete and life turns around for the better. There is a difference
between combative dualism and balanced dualism. Im all for dualism, since
the very existence of freewill must allow for the choice to respect or
reject Creation and that necessarily establishes the positive and negative
halves of the spiritual evolutionary ladder. The key is to be aware of both
halves of the duality and how each fits into the greater whole. There is
unity in the essence of duality, and duality in the expression of unity.
Understanding this greater context gives you the needed perspicacity and
wisdom to effectively deal with problems without loosing your spiritual
footing.
With increased awareness, attitude adjustment, and some introspection
those caught in the trap of negative and combative dualism can pull
themselves out of it. Here are some suggestions for attaining this.

Replace emotional paranoia and cocky combativeness with humility, humor,
and nonchalance. Yes negative forces exist and have an interest in
challenging your spiritual progress, but ego / fear / obsession are to them
what blood is to a shark. Laugh off their scare tactics and they realize
their investment in screwing with you isnt paying off. Treat the threat as
you would the danger of being run over when crossing a road  dont get
bug-eyed and madly dash across or you might trip and indeed get run over, or
hop around the street shouting and flipping off traffic or you might get
shot, just calmly look both ways and cross

Learn to use your intent combined with positive emotion to manifest
protection and other beneficial things. Acknowledge and nurture the
spiritual power and confidence within you rather than depending solely on
external gimmicks and gadgets. And if you try any sort of manifesting or
prayer routine, keep in mind its not the content of that routine so much as
the deep-seated attitude behind it that produces results. If you pray for
being saved by a higher power, yet maintain a deep-seated attitude of
victimization and disempowerment, then the latter is what youll manifest.

Become aware of your emotional issues like egotism, pissiness, victimhood,
vengefulness, self-importance, and insecurities instead of denying and
suppressing them. Denial allows them to fester and build in pressure until
they explode and cause you to react irrationally and emotionally. Denial
also allows them to secretly form the foundation of your belief system,
displacing what should instead be a pure interest in the pursuit of truth.
When belief is tied to ego-based identity, anyone challenging that belief
will be perceived by the ego as an attack upon its own existence, and the
response can be quite nasty. Become aware of these issues and then you can
deal with them.

Stop thinking that getting attention from dark forces suggests they are
taking revenge for something good you have done, that this means you are
necessarily on the right path. No, the more you get off track the more
easily they can toy with you, and the more your reality becomes abrasive as
a feedback mechanism warning you off having gone astray. If you really are a
threat, these forces wont play around with flashy theatrics  they will go
for the kill, either by trying to eliminate you through accident or illness,
or sneaking through the backdoor of your mind and programming you to destroy
yourself and everything you have worked for without you realizing it. I know
this from experience.

Sharpen your critical thinking skills, become better at spotting logical
fallacies and subjectivity. Also practice reading the vibes of people for
any signs of them being off  vibe should feel like that of a used car
salesman who knows hes selling you a lemon, smooth but off. Becoming aware
of deception immunizes you and leaves you open to explore more fruitful
avenues.

Broaden your research into new subjects. If someone is labeled a
disinformation agent, check out his or her material for yourself and come up
with several reasons why that accusation is true or false. Hunt down quality
sources that give you new insights and empower you with new chunks of
knowledge.

Without sacrificing awareness of how dark forces operate and what their
influence has been on you and the world around you, adjust your attitude to
be more constructive, hopeful, and good-natured. Practice seeing the beauty
in people and things. Put more of your energy into seeding and growing
something that makes you spiritually fulfilled  you are not combatting dark
forces directly so much as starving them by creating a better alternative.
The purpose of all this is mainly to get your vibes back up so that youre
no longer neck-deep in shark-infested waters. (see article: Realm Dynamics).
Even if conditions are shitty, make a conscious choice to stay lucid and
emotionally above water instead of drowning in negativity and self-loathing.
Keep a check on your thoughts and emotions, as what goes on within does
correlate loosely with what goes on outside.
In An Outline of Esoteric Science Rudolf Steiner wrote:
An additional way of training our thinking and feeling is by acquiring a
quality we can call positivity. There is a beautiful legend that tells of
Christ Jesus and several other people walking past a dead dog. The others
all turned away from the ugly sight, but Christ Jesus spoke admiringly of
the animals beautiful teeth. We can practice maintaining the soul-attitude
toward the world that this legend exemplifies. The erroneous, the bad, and
the ugly must not prevent the soul from finding the true, the good, and the
beautiful wherever they are present. We must not confuse positivity with
being artificially uncritical or arbitrarily closing our eyes [YCYOR] to
things that are bad, false, or inferior. It is possible to admire a dead
animals beautiful teeth and still see the decaying corpse; the corpse
does not prevent us from seeing the beautiful teeth. We cannot consider bad
things good and false things true, but we can reach the point where the bad
does not prevent
us from seeing the good and errors do not keep us from seeing the truth.

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